The Future for the 10% and the 90% in America

Michael, are you in Canada? If you are, bravo! Please confirm your location. Here is my take on this. John Johnson, now deceased, the guidance counselor at the high school in Wiarton, Ontario, where I taught for four years, put it this way. “90% of us will always work for somebody else, so why not make the system fair to the 90%?” In effect, the system cannot run without the 90% – regardless of the “smarts” at the top. It is an outdated industrial model in which intelligence is at the top of the factory system and the rest of the folks are just extensions of assembly line machines, dumb animals, robots, and slackers. This is breaking down in the Knowledge Economy. Political rhetoric, as you observe, has not caught up with the emerging reset, yet. John was from Sudbury, the son of Swedish immigrants who worked in the mines there. John started in the mines, and when World War II came he became a gunner in a Canadian bomber based in England. After the war, he became a teacher, then a guidance counselor. He was a great mentor to me. He was a realist. John also pointed out that the myth that all of us can make it into the top 10% of the ownership class is an opiate that keeps the exploitation going. In fact, 90% of the people who “play the game” are doomed to lose it – regardless of how many self-help and guides to success books they read.Fortunately, the Knowledge Economy in time will break down the hold this greedy 10% have on resources and allow a rest of how we live, do business; hopefully if we use this rest well, it will result in a fairer system. Fair is now my guiding concept. We need to be fair to the 90% – who do the work, obey the laws, pay the taxes, and fight the wars; for all of this their supposed “betters” exploit and abuse them. The late futurist Herman Kahn predicted that in time the 90% would wake up to the reality of the “game” and “blow it up.” As we approach institutional failure in the USA, we are moving toward Kahn’s forecast.

From: Mike Nicosia

Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 8:18 PM

To: Paul Rux

Subject: An AMerican in Canada ...

Romney's statements do not reflect the opinions of one man.

The entire Republican apparatus, from Fox News to Rush Limbaugh to the donors in that room to Republicans in the US House of Representatives and Senate, are imbued with this "job creators" master race versus an ocean of moochers ideology.

If there really are 40-something percent of Americans who buy this division of humanity into the innovative, industrious few besieged by a greedy, lazy many who want to "redistribute" worthwhile people's just deserts into their own pockets, then we are looking at something like a showdown in the USA.

That is why I decamped to Canada. I am fortunate in that I was a legal immigrant once and am able to petition to have my status reinstated, so I can stay while my status is sorted out..

But there are heavily armed madmen out there in the USA who are incensed by the lies, which they believe, with which the Republican Party has been pounding them on the head for 30 years.

Something has got to give.

Best would be if those 40-something percent brainwashed Americans would wake up.

Unfortunately, there are millions of them who believe exactly what Mitt Romney said, and it isn't likely they are going to change their minds.